Spiral Bound : Meyer Riegger, Berlin
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 19944977
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- University of Dundee
- Open access status
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- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- ‘Spiral Bound’ is an ongoing interdisciplinary creative
project first exhibited at Meyer Riegger Galerie, Berlin
(21 November - 19 December 2015), including an
artist’s book. Since 2015, Myles has undertaken
research trips to the USA exploring the legacies of
Best Products (1957 - 1997) and their collaboration
with New York-based Sculpture in the Environment
(SITE) architecture practice. Myles was awarded
two Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowships to
carry out this research at The Virginia Museum of
History and Culture; focusing on Best Product’s
owners, Sydney and Frances Lewis, and their practice
of bartering, enabling artists to receive merchandise
in exchange for artworks. He travelled to conduct
several interviews with James Wines of SITE and
pursue further research in the USA.
Myles situated this work within contemporary debates
around retail apocalypse and the thresholds between
gift and sale, where capitalism unravels. He produced
a series of new artworks depicting basic goods placed
on the shelves of a church’s in-house food bank
overlaid with images screen-printed by hand onto
‘true-grain’ film from his research trips, juxtaposing
differing yet coexistent systems of value and modes
of existence for objects. The church building in
Richmond, Virginia used to be a Best Products
catalogue showroom and is the only remaining
SITE building that stands in anything close to its
original form.
Myles was awarded a Visual Arts Residency at
Cove Park, Scotland, to develop the research
outcomes of this project. His research has led to
a number of symposia including ‘DOING RUINS’
as part of ‘GSA, NVA: On ruins and Ruination’ at
CCA, Glasgow (18 September 2015) and colloquiums
at VMHC, Richmond (2017 & 2019) and an artist’s
book Spiral Bound with essay by Dr Dominic
Paterson, and a review in Art (2016).
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- Non-English
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